Thank you for your replies :)

Although dev-db/mariadb is still pulled by net-analyzer/zabbix with "proxy" enabled, the compile time is shortened by about 75% with the following entries in package.use:
dev-db/mariadb -backup -pam -perl -server
net-analyzer/zabbix agent proxy mysql -agent2 -postgres ...

Hi everyone,

how can I avoid installing a full blown database server package as a dependecy of Zabbix Proxy?

I am running a Zabbix Proxy and a dedicated database server on different hosts. Zabbix Proxy needs a database - either locally or remote. It supports SQLite, MySQL and Postgres:
The ...

Thank you, Hu! When I created this thread, the bug report did not exist yet - but I can confirm, that the workaround seems to help, I just rebuilt tvheadend with ffmpeg-compat.

Kind regards
Jimini

Good day,

with the most current version of ffmpeg, building tvheadend leads to an error. Am I overlooking something or have I run into a bug?

With media-video/ ffmpeg-6.1.2-r1 building media-tv/tvheadend-4.3_p20240618 works fine .

With media-video/ ffmpeg-7.1.1 building media-tv/tvheadend-4.3 ...

Dear all,

it's been one and a half months since my last update here. All of my systems are running a 6.12.* kernel, and the initial problem did not occure one single time.
Thus, I have marked this thread as "solved". If someone should be interested in further analysis or troubleshooting, please let ...

Neddy, of course, here you are:
https://paste.gentoo.zip/EhoatfiT
https://paste.gentoo.zip/JMwdci4E
https://paste.gentoo.zip/SdndfX1M
https://paste.gentoo.zip/maMgWzab
https://paste.gentoo.zip/cdbfCRTg
https://paste.gentoo.zip/evchNp90
https://paste.gentoo.zip/9JhwJwe1

I am currently in a hurry and ...

NeddySeagoon wrote:Did you do this on SSD or magnetic HDD?

Only a RAID6 consisting of 7 HDD (1x Toshiba MG08ACA16TE, 1x Seagate Exos X18, 5x Seagate Exos X16) is affected here.

Dear all,

thank you for your further replies and assistance.
@pietinger: I guess that tuning the kernel will be a bigger project for me - to avoid side effects, I will postpone this until I have ended my tests :)
@Neddy: haha, but yes, I agree that assuming nothing is the correct approach here ...

Neddy & dmpogo, thank you for your replies.

I could run a few tests with bonnie++ while taking care for more constant basic conditions.
But at the moment I quite convinced, that changing kernel versions led to different performance results.

[ 13.732730] md/raid:md0: not clean -- starting ...

Good morning,

thank you for your reply. I have now updated the sources and the headers (thanks for the hint, I would have forgotten that one!):
=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.14
=sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.12

Then I copied the .config from the 6.6.74 kernel to the 6.12.14 directory, ran "make ...

1) I'm sure you're aware of this yourself:
[ 10.742056] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
<=>
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] [1002:1636] (rev da)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices ...

Good morning,

as written last week, I have moved the system to newer hardware (AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G, 16G RAM).

pietinger, I have now reconfigured my kernel (6.6.74) according to your hints - except for the Intel CPU related options, of course.
EXTRA_FIRMWARE is set to "amd-ucode/microcode_amd ...

Thanks a lot for your quick and helpful replies (once again... :) )!

The system is booting now, but I am unsure what the root cause was.

I will try to recomprehend what I did...
Immediately after Neddys answer, I rebuilt my kernel according to his hints. The system still did not boot.
Then I ...

Dear all,

I am currently setting up a Gentoo box on a virtual machine. According to "dmidecode -s system-product-name", it is running on a KVM host.
Unfortunately, the system does not boot my configured kernel - after the grub splashscreen, only the following appears and the system does not boot ...

Good morning altogether,

first of all, thanks a lot @pietinger for your helpful input. Unfortunately, the system had some hardware issues and I had to replace the core components. Since then, I could not reproduce the problem anymore - but I will test it from time to time.

I will definitely have a ...

pietinger, thanks a lot for your offer.

Here you are:
emerge --info: https://paste.gentoo.zip/BhPUxQ13
dmesg: https://paste.gentoo.zip/0e1IKBml
lspci -nnk: https://paste.gentoo.zip/fZ9hw8oR (the command throws "lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -2", but I guess this should not be the ...

pietinger, pingtoo & wjb, thank you for your replies.

Regarding syncconfig, it seems like I did not get the memo ;)
I have adapted my scripts and rebuilt the kernel on this particular machine, thank you.

I ran a few tests:
- unpacking a tarball on the SSD took 1m43s
- unpacking the same tarball on ...

<3, as far as I remember Yakuake has to be started in the background when you log in. When it is active, you then can use it by pressing F12 - which seems to work.

I assume the following:
- Yakuake is not started automatically when you log in
- you have to start Yakuake "by hand" once
- afterwards ...

Dear all,

when handling many small files with gentoo-sources-6.1.*, everything works fine.
With gentoo-sources-6.6.*, the transfer gets slower after a while. A reboot helps for a few moments, until the performance problem occurs again. I have to add, that a normal reboot does not work then, since ...

Hello everyone,

I have a bunch of headless systems running Gentoo. They all use newer kernels (5.15.16, 5.15.23) and come without X or any other kind of graphical output - only CLI.
While connecting them at runtime to an external HDMI screen, I noticed, that
- one immediately shows some output ...

Using a separate file for my initrams (see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs#Creating_a_separate_file), it works now.
Nevertheless I am wondering, why embedding directly into the kernel does not work, since this has always been my "worry-free" way to handle initramfs.

I'll check this ...

And your grub/refind/whatever isn't loading any external initramfs file, the only initramfs is the one in the kernel?
Yep, /boot/ only contains the System*-. config*- and vmlinuz-files - and of course the grub-related stuff.
May I ask why are you embedding the initramfs in the kernel, if you are ...

I edit all the content of the initramfs by editing the files in /usr/src/initramfs/. So, for instance, the init script which gets actually loaded by the kernel at boot time is a different one than under /usr/src/initramfs/
Let's be pedantic about this (sorry, but best to avoid misunderstandings ...

Sorry, I forgot to point that out.
I edit all the content of the initramfs by editing the files in /usr/src/initramfs/. So, for instance, the init script which gets actually loaded by the kernel at boot time is a different one than under /usr/src/initramfs/.

If I remember correctly, I never had ...

Hey there,

I am experiencing the problem with integrating an initramfs into the kernel.
The initramfs seems to work (almost) properly, but I am not able to update or change it, since the kernel always seems to use an old version.

I am using kernel 5.8.18:
livecd / # eselect kernel list
Available ...